Few Words About Michelangelo

No one has ever surpassed Michelangelo as an artist. His Christ in the Last Judgment of the Sistine Chapel—there, Eroticism, Aesthetics, and Ethics are in perfect harmony.It’s fascinating that Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel when he was around eighty—or even over eighty. The mural covers 600 square meters, and the ceiling is 20 meters high. Michelangelo built the scaffolding himself, and then spent four years up there, standing from morning till night—sometimes going three days without eating. He was painting divine themes and divine beings.
Of course, no one has ever surpassed him as a sculptor either. His David is truly a god—Eros himself, an embodiment of goodness and beauty.Even his poetry astonishes with such depth that it’s impossible not to admire, not to marvel.
Ivanov’s The Appearance of Christ to the People—he called it a vision of a better life, a vision of transformation. Christ, in dark robes, radiates sanctity and humanity through his beautiful dark eyes, but he still seems almost poor and dim in comparison to the naked figure of Christ in the Sistine Chapel—where not only holiness, but human power and grandeur are revealed.